Drop whatever it is you are doing and check out the Women Film Pioneers Project at Columbia. It is a remarkable look at women in early cinema. It has an entire section on women who worked as title writers, including Hettie Gray Baker: “a writer of motion picture titles and scenarios; of library science, theatre, and fan magazine articles; and, later in life, of highly regarded books about cats” And Katherine Hilliker, who worked on the famous titles from Sunrise:

from Marjorie Charles Driscoll, published in Motion Picture Classics in 1928, The beginning kind of reminds me of Stephen Crane's "In the Desert"I met a very ancient man with gray and revered head. "It is growing dark," I said to him, And this is what he said. "Drifting shadows crept over the World as suppliant Day knelt at the threshold of Night, pleading for the black of darkness." I looked up at him in mild surprise, He wept "Ah, well-a-day! I once wrote titles for the films, And now I talk this way!